Accelerate! (A History of the 1990s)

A kaleidoscopic history of the 1990s, a decade of fin-de-siècle hope and exuberance – plus the events, ideas and people who made and broke it

The 1990s was the decade in which the Soviet Union collapsed and Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history.” Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Google was launched and scientists in Edinburgh cloned a sheep from a single cell. It was also a time in which the President of the United States discussed fellatio on network television and the world’s most photographed woman died in a car crash in Paris. The radical pop band the KLF burned a million quid on a Scottish island, while the most-watched program on TV was Baywatch. Anti-globalization protestors in France attacked McDonalds restaurants, while American survivalists stockpiled guns and tinned food in preparation for Y2K.

For those who lived through it, the 1990s glow in the memory with a beguiling mixture of proximity and distance, familiarity and strangeness. It is the decade about which we know so much yet understand too little. Taking a kaleidoscopic view of the politics, social history, arts and popular culture of the era, James Brooke-Smith asks – what was the 1990s? A lost golden age of liberal optimism? A time of fin de siècle decadence? Or the seedbed for the discontents we face today?

This book title, Accelerate! (A History of the 1990s), ISBN: 9780750996839, by James Brooke-Smith, Jack Smyth, published by The History Press (May 2, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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